Quotes About Isolation

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

When you are a public personality, you can't afford to be a recluse.

If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job.

I have always been a bit of a recluse, but I really was after the heart thing. And everyone knew.

I'm just a monk, I'm like a recluse.

I have always been a recluse, but 'Bigg Boss' was one place I could share with the country the person I am.

Big Brother' has put me off people. I thought, 'I'm gonna get a dog.' I really think I'm going to become more reclusive. It was nothing like I expected. I was so naive about it.

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

I am a very reclusive, private person.

When I got the sack from Huddersfield it hurt me badly. I became reclusive, I never went to a match, don't think I left the house for five months.

You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.

People have all sorts of expectations which you can't meet. Me, I'm so reclusive I stay away from such things as much as I can. I never go anywhere.

I become absolutely reclusive when I'm not working, to the point where I question whether I can actually do it again.

No one recognises me in the street.

We did a film called 'Kes,' which is about a lad with a talent that nobody can recognise, or that nobody chose to recognise.

I don't totally buy or believe the paradigm that's constantly presented to us and the financial news is obsessed with, which is growth. There seems to be this paradigm which is: There has to be growth. I'm watching it and thinking, am I the only one who recognises this is a small planet isolated in a gigantic universe? Where are we growing to?

When everybody recognises you, going out is difficult. But you deal with it.

I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.

Loner heroes do appeal to that part of yourself that feels as though your genius hasn't been recognised.

I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.

I'm a very lazy person, so I don't really do things or go out very much, but when I do get out of the house, I do get recognized a lot.

My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.